Welding-rod holder



E. A. BEARSON WELDING ROD HOLDER June 22 1926. 1,589,774

. Filed April 20, 1925 June-r1101 121A BeaI'SOn.

Patented June '22, 1 926.

' EDWIN A. BEARSON, or FERTILE, MINnEsorA.

WELDING-ROD HOLDER;

Application h1g1 4 m 20, 1925. Serial m. 24,618. i

This invention relates to an improved welding rod holder particularlydesigned for use in acetylene welding and seeks, among other objects. toprovide a holder wherein 5 practically all of the welding rod may beused, thereby reducing waste of'the rod to aminimum.

The invention seeks, as a further object, to provide a holder whereinthe hands of the 9 operator will be removed from the flame and heat, andof such construction that the welding rod may, while fusing, be moreeasily held in proper position than heretofore.

Another object of the invention is to provide a holder wherein thewelding rod may be easily inserted or removed, wherein said rod will befirmly gripped and-rigidly held upon the holder, and wherein thegripping means for the rod may be operated at the handle of the device.a 4 And the invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide aholder wherein any ordinary welding rod asnow in use, may be employed inconjunction with the device. Other and. incidental objects will appearhereinafter.

In the ac'companying"drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimproved welding rod holder, parts being broken away and illustrated insection.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of, the holder,-

a portion of the handle being broken away. In carrying the inventioninto effect, 1

of which is suitably fixed a handle 11, and

K welded or otherwise secured to the forward Y end of said stock is asubstantially V-shaped saddle l2 inclined. as shown, with respect to thelongitudinal axis of the stock. As

saddle projects but a relatively short distance below the .stock, andformed in the side flang'esof said saddle are slots 13.

Welded or otherwise fixed to the stock 10 at its upper side is a guideplate 14 bent up at its forward end to form a short guide lug 15 andsimilarly bent up at its rear'end to through said lugs is a forwardlyand downwardly nclined gripping member 17 extending over the inner endof the handle 11.

employ a tubular stock 10 to the rear end'v wardly, and having inwardlydispose Fixed to the rear,end of said member is a knob 18 and formed onsaid member at forward end is an angularly disposed grippmg loop 19-straddling -the saddle 12 and 'slidably received in the slots 13thereof. As best shown in Figure 2, the bight of said loop, at theforward end thereof, is bowed rearwardly to form a gripping lug 20 whichis freely received between the sideflanges of the saddle to fit in thecrotch between said, 7

flanges, and bearing between the lug 16 of the plate '14 and the knob 18of the grippin member is a spring 21 normally holding sai memberretracted.

As willnow be seen in view of the foregoing, by gripping the handle 11and pushing forwardly on the knob .18, a welding rod, as

conventionally illustrated at 22, may be read ily disposed in thesaddle, 12 when, upon the release of the knob, the member 17' will bepressed rearwardly by the spring 21 so that the rod will be firmlygripped by the lug 20 of the gripping member and thus rigidl and firmlyheld within the saddle. -Acc0r ingly, the holder may befreelymanipulatedQ for directing the welding rod,"incident,to a welding operation, whiletherod may be fed downwardly-simply by momentarily press ing forwardlyon the knob 18 and thus rerod. Furthermore, since the saddle 12 extendsbut a short distance below the stock 10 lieving the pressure of thelug2O on said while the loop 19 of the gripping member is formed toengagethe welding rod 0 posite' the forward end of the stock, all of t erod may be used except a short length thereof to extend between saidloop and the lower end of the saddle.

Having thus I claim is:

describedthe invention, what I 1. Aflwelding rod holder comprising astock having a handle at one end, and an inclined V-shaped -saddle at,the opposite end arrangedwith the open side facing slots in its sides,and a spring-actuated member mounted on the stock and having a loop atitsfOrWard endembracing the said saddle i and operatingin, the "slotsformedin the form a longer guide lug 16.- Slidable 2. A welding rodholder comprising a outstock having a handle at one end and a V- andhaving an angularly disposed elongated shaped saddle at the opposite endproject'- loop at its front end embracing the saddle ingto unequaldistances from and inclined and operating in the slots thereof, and tothe axis of the stock, and having inwardhaving its front end rearwardlybowed to 5 1y disposed slots in its sides, a plate mounted 'form agripping lug, and a spring on the on a side of the stock and having itsends rod normally urging it rearwardly. offset to form a short front lugand a rear In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. long lug, a rodslidably mounted in the lugs EDWIN A. BEARSON. v [1 s.-]

